MISS MACLEOD is the Officer in Charge of the Orthophonie
Department at King's College Hospital. She also lectures on Speech Training for the Central Association of Mental Welfare and for the Board of Education. Her work is to find out the nature of all kinds of defective speech, from the simplest lisp to unintelligible speech and the worst stammer, and to try to cure them. She has had notable success in cases of aphonia (complete loss of voice), re-education of speech after cleft palate operations, major and minor lisping and lalling, and with stammerers. It is in order to help mothers to prevent their children from becoming permanent stammerers that this talk has been arranged ; and although, of course, stammerers cannot expect to be cured by listening to one talk, they will look with eagerness for some hints and for hope of a cure.